Monica Dolan

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1969-03-15

Place of Birth

Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Monica Dolan

Biography

Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Monica was born in March 1969 into an Irish family and has a sister Gabrielle. She studied drama at the Guildhall School in London, graduating in 1991 and soon afterwards went into television. A supremely versatile character actress, she has tended to specialize in stunning portrayals of the darker side of life, as real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead (2009), demure but deadly Miss Gilchrist in the superior Poirot adaptation Poirot: After the Funeral (2006) and, particularly, as serial killer Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) for which she, along with fellow Guildhall graduate Dominic West, deservedly received a BAFTA award.

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Acting History

2025
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties as Self (Narrator)
2024
This Time Next Year as Connie
2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Jo Hamilton
2023
Typist Artist Pirate King as Audrey Amiss
2023
The Change as Carmel
2022
A Woman Walks Into A Bank as Narrator
2022
Empire of Light as Rosemary Bates
2022
Sherwood as Ann Branson
2022
My Name Is Leon as Maureen
2022
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin
2021
Cyrano as Marie
2021
The Dig as May Brown
2020
Days of the Bagnold Summer as Sue
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Lorna
2020
Rialto as Claire
2019
Official Secrets as Fiona Bygate
2019
National Theatre Live: All About Eve as Karen Richards
2018
Hang Ups as Alison Jones
2018
A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe
2017
Fern as Woman
2017
Strike as Leonora Quine
2016
The Witness for the Prosecution as Janet McIntyre
2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2015
Eye in the Sky as Angela Northman
2015
The Falling as Miss Martha Alvaro
2015
The Casual Vacancy as Tess Wall
2015
Wolf Hall as Alice More
2014
Pride as Marion
2014
W1A as Tracey Pritchard
2014
Inside No. 9 as May
2013
The Escape Artist as Eileen Morris
2013
Out of Darkness
2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa as Angela
2013
Kick-Ass 2 as Tommy's Mum
2013
Complicit as Judith
2012
Sightseers as Janice
2011
Black Mirror as Janet McCardle
2011
Black Mirror as CS Linda Grace
2011
Death in Paradise as Patricia Lawrence
2011
Meconium as Kel (voice)
2011
DCI Banks as Maggie Forrest
2011
Appropriate Adult as Rose West
2010
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge as Angela
2010
The Arbor as Ann Hamilton
2010
Excluded
2010
Never Let Me Go as Nurse
2009
Within the Whirlwind as Pitkowskaya
2009
U Be Dead as Maria Marchese
2009
Occupation as Nicky Swift
2009
Occupation as Nicky Swift
2008
King Lear as Regan
2007
The History of Mr Polly
2005
Wallis & Edward as Elizabeth
2005
Guernsey as Claire
2003
She Stoops to Conquer as Miss Kate Hardcastle
2002
Tipping the Velvet as Alice Astley
1999
Topsy-Turvy as Miss Barnes
1998
The Gift as Jo
1997
Midsomer Murders as Imogen Stroud
1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mrs. Dorman
Book Club as Jane
Once Removed as May
The Lost Children of Tuam as Catherine Corless